DSE considers charges over whale pics

The Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) has finished the first part of an investigation into an incident in which people interfered with the carcass of a dead whale at Warrnambool in July.

The teenage boys posted photographs online of themselves standing on top of the carcass on rocks near Thunderpoint.

Mark Breguet from the DSE says officers in Melbourne will now decide whether or not to press charges against the group.

"We've interviewed some offenders in relation to those two separate offences and we've closed off our end of the investigation, the file's now in Melbourne," he said.

DSE officers will also interview the skipper of a boat that was spotted close to a group of whales near Port Fairy on Friday night.